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NASA canceled Mars sample return, leaving Perseverance’s possible life clue unconfirmed

A chalk stick size piece of Mars may contain evidence of ancient microbial activity, but the mission intended to bring it to Earth has been canceled. NASA’s Perseverance rover has the Sapphire Canyon sample sealed inside its chassis,
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NASA’s Perseverance Sets Off-World Record for Total Distance Driven

This animated orbital-map view shows the route NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has taken from time of its 2021 landing to Oct. 11, 2026 — the day it broke the off-world driving record previously held by the agency’s Opportunity rover. As of that date, Perseverance has driven over 28 miles (45 kilometers).

Inside NASA's plan to explore underground lunar caves that one day could shelter astronauts

NASA is preparing to explore deep craters on the moon, known as the Marius Hills pit, to determine if ancient underground caves could provide shelter for future astronauts.
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NASA Plans to Start a Fire on the Moon in First-of-Its-Kind Experiment

As humanity prepares to land on the moon in future Artemis missions, NASA's combustion tests will be critical to assuring astronaut safety. Reading time 2 minutes Artemis 2 was both a milestone and a test: how prepared are we to go back the Moon, and where ...
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Swapping skinsuits for space suits: American cyclist Christina Birch becomes a NASA astronaut

Christina Birch is busy showing the world you can do it all, because the 39-year-old former cyclist will soon be flying to space for NASA. The Arizona native and multiple U.S champion has been selected for the SpaceX-14 mission,
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NASA, Northrop Grumman repurpose Gateway elements for Moon Base demo missions

Northrop Grumman’s Lunar Infrastructure Demos (LID-1, LID-2 and LID-3) reuse HALO derived technologies to rapidly mature lunar surface power, thermal, autonomy, communications and hosted payload services that can survive the lunar night and scale into ...
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NASA's Artemis missions promise a return to the moon—but when?

NASA's Artemis II mission plans to fly around the moon and back this April. Four astronauts will board the mammoth Space Launch System (SLS) rocket for the test flight, spending 10 days off-Earth. They won't be touching down—this mission is intended to ...
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Why is the moon mission called ‘Artemis?’ How NASA names its missions

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Humans have not visited the moon since 1972, but that is set to change this week. Artemis II, a crewed moon mission, is scheduled to launch Wednesday, April 1 from Florida's Kennedy ...

NC State graduate Christina Koch takes NASA leadership role, ending future spaceflight assignments

From the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics to NC State and a record-setting career in space, astronaut Christina Koch will draw on her engineering spaceflight experience as she becomes NASA’s acting deputy chief engineer.
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NASA tests next-generation heat shields for future Mars missions

NASA is turning a spacecraft filled with trash into a flying laboratory for future missions to Mars. According to the agency, 12 experimental capsules aboard a departing cargo vehicle will test advanced heat shield materials during atmospheric reentry,